Skip to main content

Memorial Tributes Volume 19 (2015) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:

W. DAVID KINGERY
Pages 181-186

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 182...
... VANDIVER WILLIAM DAVID KINGERY, recognized as the father of modern ceramics who effected a paradigm shift in the field, from a focus on craft-type technologies to a discipline based on an integration of solid state physics, chemistry, and crystallography, died of a heart attack on June 29, 2000, at age 73. He played a critical role in establishing ceramics as a materials science and was also a major contributor to archaeological ceramics and art history.
From page 183...
... In all cases, he combined elegant experimental characterization of materials with physical and mathematical modeling of the observed behavior to yield critical insight. His research was published in several hundred papers, and he authored, coauthored, or edited more than a dozen books on a variety of subjects, from Ceramic Fabrication Processes (John Wiley & Sons, 1958)
From page 184...
... Later studies focused on particular art objects representative of an unknown or poorly characterized practice, and ancient technologies were investigated in terms of variability in time and geography, essentially using an anthropological paradigm. Ceramic Masterpieces reported research on the phases as well as the microstructure and microcompositional variations that are the structure of ceramic art objects to explain the appearance, variability, and optical properties of a ceramic practice.
From page 185...
... When Dave passed away, shortly after his active participation in a meeting of the Academy of Ceramics in Naples, the world lost a brilliant engineer, a creative mind, a master of scientific principles, a motivating teacher, a real innovator, and the man who made ceramics a scientific and engineering discipline. The authors of this brief tribute lost a mentor and dear friend.


This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More information on Chapter Skim is available.